water caltrop

Components
艹 meaning component

  Meaning component

caocǎo

  

grass

plant

支 sound component

  Sound component

zhī

  

support, hold up

Evolution

芰 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
芰 Seal script Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)

Seal script

Chu (Warring States: 475-221 BC)
芰 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
芰 Seal script Shuowen (~100 AD)

Seal script

Shuowen (~100 AD)
芰 Regular script Modern

Regular script

Modern
Definitions

 

water caltrop; Trapa natans

Historical pronunciation

Old Chinese

Middle Chinese

Pinyin

Gloss

*[g]re-s

gjeH

water-chestnut


Statistics

Not found in HSK word list

5332nd most common character in books

Miscellaneous

Strokes

7

Unicode

U+82B0

Shuowen

“芰,蔆也。从艸,支聲。杜林說:芰从多。”


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